At noon on the seventh day, Qin Chuan stood outside the camp, looking at the endless mules, horses, and chicken buses transporting money and grain into the camp, and his face was filled with smiles.

"General, if you attack the city, you will definitely seize much more money and food than this, right?" Liu Wenxiu, who was able to learn from the army, asked in confusion.

Ai Nengqi, who was standing beside him, took the conversation and said, "Yes, there are so many landlords and wealth in Taiyuan City, as well as King Jin and King Ninghua. They must have a lot of money, so why don't you throw in and grab it?"

Qin Chuan patted Liu Wenxiu on the shoulder with a smile and asked, "What are our strategic goals for the next two years?"

"Strive to Hetao area."

"Which is more important than a Taiyuan City or Hetao area?"

"Of course it's the Hetao area."

"That's right. You can't ignore your long-term strategic goals for the sake of immediate interests. Although Taiyuan City has a lot of money and food, if you want to attack, you will have to pay a certain price."

"Now we have few troops. We must not only attack the Tartars in the Hetao area and Lin Dankhan's son, but also guard against the counterattack of Jiannu and deal with the Ming army's encirclement. In this case, the most important thing is to preserve our strength."

"There may be more than a thousand casualties, or even two thousand three thousand. Although this casualties are not considered too many, for us, every point of our strength decreases, it will be more dangerous."

"If you have less money, just use it. By the same token, if you have less troops, you will carefully calculate one soldier and one soldier. You must always preserve the strongest strength to face strong enemies and deal with unknown variables."

"What's more, there are thousands of Ming troops in Jiaocheng and Wenshui. The Ming troops are stationed in Yangqu, Xinzhou and Yanmen Pass in the north. If we suffer too much casualties in Taiyuan City, those Ming troops will definitely pounce on us. Even if we are not afraid of them, we will inevitably be restrained."

"In other words, we can't go south to fight against Yancheng."

"If we preserve our strength, we can still go south along the Taiyuan Basin and fight all the way to Siyancheng, and the number of people we grab is not much smaller."

After hearing Qin Chuan's words, Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi frowned slightly, looking thoughtful.

Qin Chuan smiled and patted their shoulders, saying, "Remember, don't be arrogant when marching and fighting, think twice about everything."

"Well, I remember."

Liu Wenxiu Ai Nengqi nodded heavily.

"Okay, from tomorrow, you two will serve as captains in Luoba's Shifang Camp, each leading eleven soldiers. Tomorrow, with Luoba, you will go south to attack the villages and towns along the way to practice."

"Thank you, General!"

Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi were very surprised and knelt down on one knee and saluted Qin Chuan.

"Li Dingguo has made many military achievements and promoted to the 100th General Manager, so you two can do it well."

"Yes, we will never let down the general's high expectations!"

"Go and get your military cards, and then go to Liu Youzhu to report."

"yes!"

Looking at Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi who were leaving happily, Qin Chuan nodded with satisfaction.

The martial arts lecture hall was created for a year. Although it was still incomplete in terms of systems and teaching content, many young generals have been trained this year.

Those who were selected to the martial arts lecture hall were all young people with experience in fighting, including Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi. Although these two were young, they had already followed Zhang Bingzhong to fight south and north for several years and had certain experience in fighting.

These young people not only need to learn literacy, learn military rules and military strategies, but also teach with the army. Once there is a war, there will inevitably be a group of young trainees from martial arts lecture halls who follow the army to fight with the army, combining theory and practice, so that they can teach truly useful officers.

Nowadays, there are more than 40 middle and low-level officers from the martial arts lecture hall. In the near future, these people are destined to become the backbone of the Guandi Army.

Qin Chuan did not prefer Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi, but treated them equally with others. Whether they could make a name for themselves depends entirely on their own real skills.

Li Dingguo's military talent is becoming more and more apparent. In history, he seems to have led his troops alone to fight for Zhang Xianzhong in all directions.

There is also Bai Wenxuan. This guy has some skills and has been promoted to the 100th General Manager with his military merits. Although his pattern is not as big as Li Dingguo, it is also considered a material that can be made.

In short, the people who were accused of Zhang Bingzhong were all very good.

At this moment, Zhang Bingzhong should still be jumping around in Henan. I don’t know how famous he can make without these adopted sons.

...

Taiyuan City compromised and sent the money and food out of the city and into his camp.

A total of 13,000 stones of grain, 4,700 taels of silver, a lot of each.

The two hundred pieces of glassware that were stolen have turned into five hundred pieces, each piece tied with a straw rope and sent to the camp intact.

There were also 180 subordinates of Wang Zhong, tied up tightly, kneeling beside the camp and crying.

They didn't expect that they would be sold by Wang Zhong in a blink of an eye.

Liu Youzhu also rushed over to meet up. He brought 2,100 soldiers, more than 7,000 people, and more than 1,000 mules, horses, carriages, chickens and buses. The harvest was pretty good.

The money and grains in Taiyuan City were transported until the evening, and the vehicles carrying the money and grains, baskets and sacks filled the entire camp.

The coachman and managers were responsible for transporting the goods. They wanted to take back the mule, horse, carriage and chicken bus, but when they were in Qin Chuan's hands, they could never take back the items, including the mule, horses that pulled the cart, and they could not take back any of them.

Even hundreds of coachmen and porters were bewitched by Qin Chuan and stayed there. The city officials had to obediently send the families and property of these people out of the city.

...

Early the next morning, Qin Chuan suddenly appeared outside the north gate of Taiyuan City.

Wu Qian, Wang Zhong and others thought he had gone back on his word, so they hurried to the north gate and prepared to command the city.

However, Qin Chuan did not attack the city, but instead escorted Wang Zhong's 180 subordinates, lined up and knelt outside the north gate.

Seeing a group of officials appearing on the devastated city, Qin Chuan cleared his throat and shouted loudly:

"The one who dares to kill me and steal my money will only end up with one fate."

After saying that, he waved his hand gently.

The Guandi Army had already prepared a knife and fell, and 180 heads rolled to the ground, and blood sprayed like rain.

"Everyone, this grudge will be written off and there will be a period of time later."

Qin Chuan bowed to the top of the city, then turned the horse's head and left with his subordinates.

On the top of the city, Wu Qi had no expression on his face and only stared at Qin Chuan's back as he walked away.

Wang Zhongze wiped the cold sweat from his head and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Hmph! A dog cannot change his shit, and a thief is a thief. He burns, kills, loots everywhere, commits all kinds of evil, and is insatiable." Someone suddenly said.

"He is no longer an ordinary thief, otherwise he could attack Taiyuan City and rob the city of all."

"Then why didn't he attack the city?"

"Because his ambition is not in Taiyuan, but in..."

"Hmph! Wolf ambition, bold traitor!"

This sentence of the traitor seemed to touch the scholars' loyalty and patriotism, and a burst of curses immediately sounded at the scene.

Those scholars who heard that Qin Chuan was going to attack the city were scolded the most fiercely.

Wu Qi kept silent and stood firmly on the head of the city, looking at Qin Chuan's movements.

Lord Futai refused to leave, and Wang Zhong and others did not dare to leave, so they had to accompany him on the top of the city.

It was not until Qin Chuan's army set out to leave and headed towards the west of Luliang Mountain, Wu Xuan spoke.

"The command of Wu Xiang, Ma Degong of Xinzhou, was ordered to lead troops to Taiyuan immediately to listen to the order."

"Then the order of Liu Liangzuo of Meng County to order him to arrive in Taiyuan within three days. If the deadline is not reached, he will be executed!"

"Then the order of Ni Chong, Jiaocheng, and Zhang Dechang, the two of them ordered them to pay close attention to the movements of the Qin bandits. When the Qin bandits divided their troops to the south, they would wait for an opportunity to attack their weak areas."

"There are edicts to all the prefectures and counties in the south, and local generals and officials are ordered to guard against the death to prevent the Qin thieves from attacking the city."

"yes!"

...

Loufan, Montenegro Fort.

After Dongli Sanren and Luo Zixi walked into a house made of steel and concrete, they opened their mouths and looked east and west in surprise.

This is a chemical laboratory that Qinchuan ordered people to build not long ago. It is a single-story building, including the roof, which is made of thick reinforced concrete. There are eight rooms, two large and six small. Each room has large windows that are transparent north and south, and several strange pits are dug on the ground.

"Two, these pits were dug by the general for you, saying that they could avoid explosions."

"There are also these cement tables that were specially made to prevent explosions. The Forging Shop is creating special iron armor for the two, and these things are all prepared for them."

Chen Zhan, who was in charge of the reception, introduced while pointing at the things in the room.

Hearing his words, Dongli Sanren and Luo Zixi's expressions changed.

Why does this place feel so dangerous?

"Mr. Chen."

Dongli Sanren couldn't help but interrupt Chen Zhan and asked, "What do General Qin want us to do?"

"Oh, it was Chen who was negligent."

Chen Zhan bowed apologetically, then took out a booklet from his arms and handed it over with both hands.

"This is written by General Qin to the two of you. Chen couldn't understand what the above is, and he didn't know what it was."

"General Qin said that after you come, you can first explore the manufacturing methods of the three things in the booklet."

"But before that, the general hopes that the two of them will make glass first. What he wants is pure glass and he also knows the general method, but he doesn't know the proportions, so the two of them will need to explore for a while."
To be continued...